How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy

How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy:

 "Even more important is another kind of security transnational corporations need. As the director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean underscored, "What is important for an investor in regards to security has to do with legal security and country risk."

This notion of "security" calls up the Colombia model: paramilitarization in the service of capital. This model includes the formation of paramilitary death squads, the displacement of civilian populations and an increase in violence. In the commercial sector, it is workers, small businesses and a sector of the local elite who are hit hardest by drug war policies.

Though these non-official aspects of the war on drugs are sometimes presented as damaging or threatening foreign direct investment, in fact it is violence that controls workers and displaces land-based communities from territories of interest to transnational corporate expansion. "

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